Show more Greg Jenner is joined in the Palaeolithic era by Dr Isobel Wisher and comedian Seán Burke to learn about cave art. Tens of thousands of years ago, human ancestors all over the world ...

"He said, 'You should go and take a look. There might be artifacts from the Paleolithic period'." Upon arriving at the village, Li was greeted by a trove of fossils covered in riverbank mud ...

Britain has a rich and well-documented earlier Palaeolithic record, which provides a unique resource to investigate population dynamics and the relationship with north-west Europe during the Middle ...

To try and reconstruct the ways in which these projectiles might have been used, the researchers analyzed the ballistic properties of more than 500 Palaeolithic arrowheads from 25 different sites ...

It was made sometime between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago (during the Middle Palaeolithic) and was part of the tool kit used by Neanderthals. Handaxes are thought to have been used primarily for ...

Shimelmitz, Ron Kuhn, Steven L. Ronen, Avraham Weinstein-Evron, Mina and Petraglia, Michael D. 2014. Predetermined Flake Production at the Lower/Middle Paleolithic ...

Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world.

The notion that we’re trapped in Stone Age bodies in a fast-food world is driving the current craze for Paleolithic diets. The popularity of these so-called caveman or Stone Age diets is based ...

Seventeen decorated caves of the Paleolithic age were inscribed as an extension to the Altamira Cave, inscribed in 1985. The property will now appear on the List as Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic ...

An analysis of around a dozen teenagers who lived during the Paleolithic reveals that they hit puberty around the same time modern teens do. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both the Old and New Worlds was the blade flake, a thin, parallel-sided flake that is at least twice as long as it is wide. Blade flakes were ...

2008). Aurignacian: An early Upper Paleolithic archaeological culture found throughout Europe and western Eurasia, which dates to 30–35,000 years ago. It is characterized by retouched tools made ...